Thread-holder.



' PATENTED AUG. 1s, .1908.

J. ROSENBERG.

THREAD HOLDER.

APPLICATION FILED NOV. 5

NVENTO? fasgyv/zaxzz W/TNESSES A TTOHNE YS' JOSEPH ROSENBERG, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

THRE .AD-HOLDER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Aug. 18, 1908i.

Application filed. November 5, 1907. Serial N. 400,805;

To all whom 'it may concern.'

Be it known that I, JOSEPH RosnN'BnnG, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of the city of New York, borough of Manhattan, in the county and State of New York,

have invented a new and Improved Thread- Holder, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

This invention is an improvement in thread holders more particularly adapted for factory sewing rooms.

The object of the invention primarily is to provide a device of this nature, in which the thread -is conveniently accessible for sewing purposes but which cannot be unauthorizedly displaced from the holder or stolen.

The invention further resides in certain special features of construction and combination of parts, as will be hereinafter described in detail and claimed.

Reference is to be had to the accompanying drawings forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is a side elevation of a thread holder embodying my invention, the same being shown partly in central vertical section, Fig. 2 is a fragmentary sectional view on an enlarged scale of the outer portion of one of the thread-holding arms, and Fig. 3 is a section substantially on the line 3-3 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction of the arrow.

In the construction of my improved holder I employ a suitable tubular stand 5, within which telescopes a standard 6, the latter being held in the stand in any required position of adjustment by a set-screw 7, and is made in two sections which are connected together through the intermediary of radially-projecting thread-supporting arms 8, the connection to said arms being preferably effected by threading the sections of the standard thereinto, as illustrated in Fig. 1.

The top section of the standard 6 carries a cross-piece providing arms 9, each having a thread-receiving aperture 10 near its extremity. The cross piece comprising the arms 9 is slidable on the standard 6, and is held at a suitable elevation by a thumbat the center, and in which are journaled the opposite reduced ends of a lock 11, the said llock preferably being of the Yale type and adapted to lock itself to the arms and against rotation when turned to the position shown in Eig. 1. Bolts 12 having outer forked ends, are slidingly mounted in the outer portions and in cross-walls of the arms 8, and are pivotally connected to the lock 11 through the intermediary of links 13, the connection of these links to the lock being at diametrically opposite points removed from the center of the lock, whereby as the lock is revolved the bolts 12 will be simultaneously projected or retracted according to the direction of the locks rotation.

Rigid with the free ends of the arms S are upright conical cups 14, designed to receive the tubes of thread when the latter are placed upon vertical pins 15, the latter being provided with heads or other enlargements 1K6 at their upper extremities, whereby the tubes may not be bodily displaced in an upward direction, and are of reduced diameter at their lower portions where they pass through openings in the arms 8, the said reduced portions of the pins extending to near their lower extremities, whereby they are provided with heads 17, of such size that the tubes of thread may be. passed thereover when the pins are removed from the cups.

In applying the thread to the holder, the locking-bolts 12 are retracted to the dotted position shown in Fig. 1 by withdrawing the locking-bolt of the lock and revolving said lock with the key as shown in Fig. 3. The pins 15 may then be withdrawn from the locking chambers and cups, and the tubes placed thereon by sliding them over the heads 17, after which the pins are again placed in position and are supported'by the contact of the tubes on the inner faces of the cups, as shown in Fig. 1. By again revolving the'lock in a direction to project the bolts 12, the forked extremities of said bolts are simultaneously carried into embrace with the reduced portions of the pins 15, operating to prevent the latter from being withdrawn from the cups, by reason of the enlargements or heads 17. The tubes when thus locked obviously prevent the thread from being removed by unauthorized persons or stolen.

The thread from each of the tubes is fed through the apertures 10 to the machine or other oint of use. As the thread unwinds from t e tubes, at times one or more convolutions of the same become loose and drop.

The conical cups 14 operate to catch these Having thus described my invention, I

claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent:

1. A thread holder, comprising a support having a vertically-arranged pin adapted to carry a tube of thread and having a head for preventing the removal of the tube from one end of the pin, means for locking the pin at the opposite side of the tube to the support, and meansl for adjusting the vertical height of the support.

2. In a thread holder, a substantially vertically-arranged standard having a laterallyprojecting arm, a substantially vertically arranged pin adapted to carry a tube of thread at the outer end of said arm, and means incased within said arm for locking the pin thereto.

3. In a thread holder, a support having a plurality of laterally-extending arms, a substantially vertically-arranged pin carried by each arm adapted to carry a tube of thread, and means contained within said arms for locking the pin thereto.

4. In a thread holder, a su port, a plurality of arms carried by saidp support, pins adapted to carry tubes of thread, having means to prevent the removal of the tubes therefrom in one direction, and locking 'means carried by said arms for locking the pins thereto, whereby the tubes may not be removed from the pins in the opposite direction.

5. A thread holder, comprising a support having laterally-extending arms, pins adapted to carry tubes of thread carried by said arms, means for preventing the removal of said tubes from the upper' ends of said pins, and means for locking the lower ends of said pins to said arms.

6. In a thread holder, a conical cup, a pin substantially centrally arranged in said cup ada ted to carry a tube of thread, and means for ocking the pin within the cup.

7. In a thread holder, a laterally-extending arm having an upright conical cup rigid therewith, a pin adapted to carry a tube of thread and support the same on said cup, and A cups rigid with the outer portions of said f arms, Ins adapted to carry the thread, having en argements to prevent the removal of the thread therefrom in one direction, and means for looking said pins within the cups to said arms, whereby-the thread can not be removed therefrom in the opposite direction.

10. In a thread holder, a support having laterally projecting arms rigidly connected together, and means carried by each of said arms movably mounted relative thereto for locking the thread thereon.

11. In a thread holder, laterally-extending arms, means for carrying the thread carried by said arms, and a look revolubly mounted intermediate said arms for locking the thread thereto.

12. In a thread holder, a support having laterally-extending arms, a lock journaled in said arms, pins for carrying the thread, means for fiXedly securing the lock to the arms, and locking-bolts connected with the lock and operable thereby to engage and lock said pins.

13. A thread holder, comprising a support having laterally-extending arms, upright conical cups rigid with said arms, pins adapted to hold tubes of thread insertible within said cups, locking-bolts for engaging said pins, and a revoluble member ournaled in said arms for simultaneously advancing and retracting said locking-bolts.

14. A thread holder, comprising a stand, a standard telescoping within and adjustable in said stand, arms having looking means carried by the standard, arms having apertures for guiding the thread, adjustable on the standard above the first-named arms, and means for carrying the thread supported on the first-named arms and adapted to be engaged by said locking means.

In testimony whereof I have signed my name to this speciiication in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

V' JOSEPH ROSENBERG. 

